I have flown flight simulators for years to practice full scale flight techniques. One of the things I used to do when I was bored was fly the plane from an external view point on the runway, so it was like R/C flying. Funny trying to land a 757 from an r/c perspective. Anyway, the biggest help for me towards real r/c flying is the practicing of dealing with right/left reversal when the plane is comming at you, as well as lining up with the runway while standing off to the side.

This type of practice can be done in x-plane (i d/l'ed the demo at www.x-plane.com), MS flightsim, and of course the specific r/c sims out there. I've never used any of the specific r/c sims, but i guess their advantage over full scale simware is that it is designer for r/c flying, including using your own radio rather than a joystick.

If you do have a full scale sim on your computer, select the stationary outside view (not the outside view that chases the plane) and try that out.